Chapter 21

poor people in the cities waited in these to get free food from charities & public agencies

risky stock purchase intended to turn quick profits

theory that money poured into the top of the economic pyramid will flow down to the base

Dust Bowl refugees from the Great Plains that headed west to work

known as Boulder Dam, construction on this brought needed employment to the Southwest

a time of economic downturn and high unemployment between 1929 and 1941

this event caused hundreds of thousands of people to migrate from the Great Plains

these people lived on and worked land owned by someone else

tax passed in 1930 on foreign products brought into the US

during the depression, homeless people grouped together to build shantytowns of tents & shacks

general that led the federal troops to clear out the Bonus Army from Washington DC

time at which the stock market collapsed in the Great Crash

policy where problems could best be solved at local and state levels

US President from 1929 to 1933

WWI veterans who demanded the government pay them compensation for serving in the war